In questo periodo di feste e raccoglimento spirituale, nella chiusura del santo 2019, riprendo un concetto a me caro. Devo davvero dirvi io di ascoltare Blood Incantation, Devourment, Coffins, Hideous Divinity, Misery Index, Profanatica, Impiety, Teitanblood, Diocletian, Deiphago, Batushka, Mayhem, Darkened Nocturne Slaughtercult, Storm{O}, Wolfbrigade, Cult of Luna e Atlantean Kodex? Se eravate giunti su questa pagina per leggere di loro, ecco: lo avete appena fatto. Ma vi sentite davvero soddisfatti? In fondo questi sono nomi che nelle listone sono SEMPRE presenti. A ragione direi. Nel 2019 i gruppi appena citati hanno creato album bellissimi, ma – come già avrete intuito – non mi appassionano i discorsi sull’ovvio. Allora con sommo piacere mi accingo ripercorrere un anno pienissimo come quei deliziosi calamari nelle mani violente e decise di mia nonna. Non ci sono capolavori? Chissà, io dico sempre che lo scopriremo solo tra qualche anno. Ah il tutto è in ordine rigorosamente alfabetico: no alle classifiche!
Cominciamo con l’artiglieria pesante: i lavori death metal che mi sono piaciuti di più in ambito internazionale.
Carcinoid – Metastatic Declination (Memento Mori / Blood Harvest Records/ Headsplit Records)
Cerebral Rot – Odious Descent into Decay (20 Buck Spin)
Cianide – Unhumanized (Hells Headbangers)
Concrete Winds – Primitive Force (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Deiquisitor – Towards Our Impending Doom (Night Shroud Records / Extremely Rotten Production)
Dipygus – Deathooze (Caligari Records / Expansion Abyss)
Ectoplasma – White-Eyed Trance (Memento Mori / Caligari Records)
Fetid – Steeping Corporeal Mess (20 Buck Spin / Headsplit Records)
Godagainst – Summoning Chaotic Annihilation (Australis Records)
Krypts – Cadaver Circulation (Dark Descent Records)
Lord Gore – Scalpels for Blind Surgeons (Everlasting Spew Records)
Mortiferum – Disgorged from Psychotic Depths (Profound Lore Records)
Ossuarium – Living Tomb (20 Buck Spin)
Pissgrave – Posthumous Humiliation (Profound Lore Records / Night Shroud Records)
Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Teufelsbücher (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Vircolac – Masque (Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records)
Vitriol – To bathe from the throat of cowardice (Century Media Records)
Ecco la mia parte preferita di questa rassegna: sprizzi, spruzzi, secrezioni impazzite… insomma quelle che io considero le eiaculazioni di salute del death metal stagione 2019, cioè uscite brevi e demo.
Abysmalist – Reflections of Horror (Caligari Records)
Anatomia – Hollowed Cadaver (self released)
Cemetarian – Tomb of Morbid Stench (Unholy Domain Records)
Chaotian – Festering Carcinolith (Extremely Rotten Productions)
Charnel Altar – Charnel Altar (Desert Wastelands Productions / Seed of Doom Records)
Coffin Mulch – Coffin Mulch (self released)
Cryptae – Vestigial (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Distant Fear – Mortal Column (self released)
Engulf – Transcend (Everlasting Spew Records)
Graven Maul – Lay a Pox upon Their Bloodline (Redefining Darkness Records)
Gutvoid – Astral Bestiary (self released)
Malignant Altar – Retribution of Jealous Gods (The Other Records / Maggot Stomp)
Mortal Incarnation – Lunar Radiant Dawn (self released)
Mourned – Devoured Humanity (The Coming Strife Records)
Perinei – Demo 2019 (Caligari Records)
Putrescine – The One Reborn (self released)
Ripped to Shreds – 魔經 – Demon Scriptures (Pulverised Records)
Saprophage – Demo 2019 (self released)
Sedimentum – Demo (Iron Bonehead Productions / Fucking Kill Records)
Seraphic Entombment – Quelled (Unholy Domain Records)
Seventh circle – Cycle of Violence (Caligari Records)
Snéť – Promo (Lycanthropic Chants / Burning Coffin Records)
Thanamagus – Incorporeal Passage (Unholy Domain Records / Seed of Doom Records)
Total Isolation – Winfield (Seed of Doom Records)
Undeath – Sentient Autolysis (Caligari Records)
Void Eater – IIII (self released)
Anche in Italia sanno fare dell’ottimo death metal!
Burial – Presence from Beyond (Dismal Fate Records)
Continuum of Xul – Promo MMXIX (self released)
Cosmic Putrefaction – At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm (I, Voidhanger Records / Caligari Records)
Demiurgon – The Oblivious Lure (Everlasting Spew Records) [intervista]
Devoid of Thought – Cosmic Apoptosis (Caligari Records) [intervista]
Fulci – Tropical Sun (Time To Kill Records)
Morbus Grave – Abomination (Redefining Darkness Records)
Sangue – Culś (Nuclear War Now! Productions) [intervista]
Sepolcro – Amorphous Mass (Unholy Domain Records / Headsplit Records / Dismal Fate Records) [intervista]
Stige – Spekuldeathstroy (self released)
Tenebro – Demo (Desert Wasterlands Productions)
“Gne gne gne il black metal è morto nel 1994″… stocazzo! Il 2019 ci ha regalato un numero incredibile di pubblicazioni notevoli.
Akasha – Canticles of the Sepulchral Deity (Grey Matter Productions)
Andavald – Undir skyggðarhaldi (Mystískaos)
Arnaut Pavle – Arnaut Pavle (Mystískaos)
Blattaria – Life is a disease (Harlequinflesh)
Blood Tyrant – The Realm That Brings Forth Death (Tour De Garde)
Cenotaphe – Empyrée (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Denial of God – The Hallow Mass (Osmose Productions)
Drastus – La Croix de Sang (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Epectase – Astres (I, Voidhanger Records)
False – Portent (Gilead Media)
Funereal Presence – Achatius (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Gabestok – Tre (Strange Aeons Records)
Golden Ashes – Gold Are the Ashes of the Restorer (Aurora Borealis Records)
Grey Aura – 2: De bezwijkende deugd (Tartarus Records)
Haunter – Sacramental Death Qualia (I, Voidhanger Records)
Hwwauoch – Into the Labyrinth of Consciousness (Amor Fati Productions)
Ifernach – Skin Stone Blood Bone (Tour De Garde)
Imperial Cult – Spasm of Light (Amor Fati Productions / Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Kostnatění – Hrůza zvítězí (Bile Noire)
Krukh – Чёрный свет [Black Light] (Vigor Deconstruct)
Kvelgeyst – Alkahest (Vendetta Records)
Mavradoxa – Nightmarrow (Hypnotic Dirge Records)
Monarque – Jusqu’à la mort (Sepulchral Productions / Les Productions Hérétiques)
Mylingar – Döda själar (Amor Fati Productions / 20 Buck Spin)
Mystagogue – And the Darkness Was Cast Out into the Wilderness (Vendetta Records)
Nocturnal Departure – Cathartic Black Ritual (Les Fleurs du Mal Productions / Redefining Darkness Productions / Death Kvlt Productions)
None – Damp Chill of Life (Hypnotic Dirge Records)
Óreiða – Óreiða (Signal Rex / Harvest of Death)
Örmagna – Örmagna (Signal Rex)
Ossuaire – Premiers Chants / Derniers Chants (Sepulchral Productions)
Pharmakeia – Pharmakeia (Amor Fati Productions)
Phezulu – Oslobođenje za zatočene (The Throat)
Reign in Blood – Missa Pro Defunctis (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Sanguine Myst – Upon Sylvan Throne
Serpens Luminis – Bright Euphoria (Goathorned Productions)
Serpent Column – Mirror in darkness(Mystískaos)
Trono Alèm Morte – As Portas da Ruína (Harvest of Death)
Voëmmr – O ovnh intot adr mordrb (Harvest Of Death)
Volahn – El Tigre del Sur (Crepúsculo Negro)
Yellow Eyes – Rare Field Ceiling (Gilead Media)
Se preferite qualcosa di più delicato e orecchiabile, sempre in campo black:
Keys of Orthanc – A Battle in the Dark Lands of the Eye… (Naturmacht Productions)
Nachtterror – Judgement (Hypnotic Dirge Records)
Pensées Nocturnes – Grand Guignol Orchestra (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions)
Véhémence – Par le sang versé (Antiq Records)
I soliti bei gruppi black italiani:
Coil Commemorate Enslave – The Unavoidable (self released) [intervista]
Comando Praetorio – Ignee Sacertà Ctonie (ATMF)
Dark Rain Forest – Through The Witch’s Forest (self released)
Dispnea – Incitement to Self-Destruction (self released)
Experior Obscura – Iter In Nebula (Third I Rex)
Falaise – A Place I Don’t Belong To (A Sad Sadness Song)
Flamen – Furor Lunae (Wolfspell Records)
Frostmoon Eclipse – Worse Weather To Come (Immortal Frost Productions)
Hornwood Fell – Damno Lumina Nocte (Third I Rex) [intervista]
Infamous – Muttos Pro S’Aristocrazia (self released)
Krigere Wolf – Eternal Holocaust(Lower Silesian Stronghold)
Laetitia in Holocaust – Fauci Tra Fauci (Third I Rex)
Mother Augusta – Fragile (Pest Productions)
Odiosordo – Con il Buio Nel Sangue (Third I Rex)
Tundra – The Darkening Sky (Slava Satan Records)
Non ho concentrato tantissimo la mia attenzione sul war metal, ma qualcosa del genere la troverete nella presente sezione, da intendere in senso più ampio come tutte quelle uscite in cui c’è del black assieme a qualcos’altro, intitolata con semplicità e dolcezza…
Bestie bastarde:
Antichrist Siege Machine – Schism Perpetration (Krucyator Productions / Stygian Black Hand)
Barbarian Swords – Totemic Anal Turbofucker (Third I Rex)
Blooming Carrions – Sisters in Blooming Flesh (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Cenotafio – Larvae Tedeum Teratos (Weed Hunter Records / Apocalyptic Productions / Mouth of Madness)
Corpsehammer – Metal de la Muerte (Bestial Invasion Records)
Cult of Extinction – Ritual in The Absolute Absence of Light (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Death Worship – End Times (Nuclear War Now! Productions / InCoffin Productions)
Dikasterion – Stavelot 1597 / Rome 897 (Amor Fati Productions)
Havohej – Table of Uncreation (Hells Headbangers Records)
Human Agony – Putrescence of Calvary(Invictus Productions)
Kill – Devil Mass (Amor Fati Productions)
Musmahhu – Reign of The Odious (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Pig’s Blood – A Flock Slaughtered (Godz ov War Productions)
Ritual Laceration – I (Caligari Records)
Sickness – Nidus Diaboli (Nuclear Abominations Records)
Slaughtbbath – Alchemical Warfare (Hells Headbangers Records)
Vile Ritual – Vile Ritual (self released)
E qui le bestie bastarde sono pure italiane:
Black Ejaculation – Upheaval of Desecration (Unholy Domain Records)
Deathfucker – Devil’s Fist (Iron, Blood and Death Corporation)
Extirpation – A Damnation’s Stairway To The Altar Of Failure (Triumph Ov Death) [intervista]
Necromutilator – Black Blood Aggression (Terror From Hell Records)
Radon Trench – Gods of Decimation (Demented Omen of Masochism / Pagan Infantry Records)
Sadomortuary – Sadomortuary (self released)
Simvlacrvm – The Black Graves of Evil (Despise The Sun Records)
Vomitmantik – Bloodrehearsal (self released)
Conta il core (in senso lato perché c’è anche molto crust):
Akrasia – Observe The Darkness (self released)
Asocial – Föralltid Underground (F.O.A.D. Records)
Autarch – The Light Escaping (The Plague of Man Records / Replenish Records / Profane Existence)
Bombardement – Bombardement (Destructure Records / Symphony of Destruction)
Genogeist – Genogeist (self released)
Grave Titan – Demo 2019 (self released)
Imha Tarikat – Kara Ihlas (Vendetta Records)
Major Mistake – Foul Foundations (Dismal Fate Records)
Metachrist – Final Bloody Master (self released)
Morbid Scum – Demo (self released)
Saccage – Khaos Mortem (PRC Music / Suicide By Cops Records / Torture Garden Pictures Company)
Step to Freedom – The Rotten Era (Blown Out Media)
Trash Tape Therapy – Part 4 – Face of Terror (self released)
Italiancore (grind, crust, powerviolence e via dicendo):
Egestas – Oltre Le Rovine (ZAS autoproduzioni , Choices Of Your Own Records, Mastice Produzioni, Terapia Intensiva, Fresh Outbreak Records, Radio Punk, Spaccio Dischi, Disastro Sonoro, L’oltraggio Autoproduzioni, Sedation Records, End Of Silence Records, Dischi Rozzi)
Grevia – Misophonic (Lethal Scissor Records)
Hobos – Nell’era dell’Apparenza (Spikerot Records / Assurd Records)
Kombustion – Cenere (self released)
L.UL.U. – Crushed EP (self released)
Mesecina – Esbat (self released)
The Seeker – Demo 2019 (self released)
Shoki – Self Titled (Hidden Hands Records)
Splittini carini:
Abhor / Abysmal Grief – Legione Occulta / Ministerium Diaboli (Iron Bonehead Productions)
A Répit/ Inféren / Malauriu / Vultur – Teschi Ossa Morte (Masked Dead Records / The Triad Rec / Southern Hell Records / The Last Step Distr. / Ira Aeterna Productions / Nebelkorps)
Black Fucking Cancer / Gloam – Boundless Arcane Invokations (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Ceremented / Malefic Levitation – Split (Caligari Records)
Ekpyrosis / Cryptic Brood – In The Grip Of Death (Necrotheism Productions)
Rotheads / Engrossed / Eruptive / Vorus – Into the Bottomless Pit (Macabre End Prods / Death In Pieces Records)
Triangulum / El-Ahrairah – Triangulum / El-Ahrairah (Nebular Carcoma Records)
Classici (anche Blog Thrower ama roba tipo gli assoli al fulmicotone, i riff granitici e la doppiacassa terremotante):
Aggressive Perfector – Havoc at the Midnight Hour (Dying Victims Productions)
Aphrodite – Lust And War (Fighter Records / Analog Overdose Records)
Barbarian – To No God Shall I Kneel (Hells Headbangers Records)
Flamekeeper – We Who Light The Fire (Invictus Productions)
Indian Nightmare – By Ancient Force (High Roller Records / Dying Victims Productions)
Mystik – Mystik (I Hate)
The Ossuary – Southern Funeral (Supreme Chaos Records)
Traveler – Traveler (Caligari Records / Gates Of Hell Records)
Vulture’s Vengeance – The Knightlore (Gates of Hell Records / Witchcraft Records)
Nell’abisso (disperazione, sarà perché ti amo):
Into Coffin – Unconquered Abyss (Terror From Hell Records)
Esogenesi – Esogenesi (Transcending Obscurity Records) [intervista]
Miscarriage – Imminent Horror (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Naga – Void Cult Rising (Spikerot Records)
Gli incubi forti (non è un caso che abbiano una label in comune):
Black Earth – Gnarled Ritual Of Self Annihilation (Sentient Ruin Laboratories / Cyclic Law)
Pseudocommando – A Home Beneath The Floorboards (Sentient Ruin Laboratories / Ignorant Ear Tapes / Noise Virus)
Sutekh Hexen – Sutekh Hexen ((Sentient Ruin Laboratories / Cyclic Law)
Inafferrabili (quando parlare di un singolo genere musicale è un po’ complicato):
The Haunting Green – Natural Extinctions (Hypnotic Dirge Records) [intervista]
Rainer Landfermann – Mein Wort in Deiner Dunkelheit (self released)
Reveal! – Scissorgod (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Sedna – The Man Behind The Sun (Spikerot Records)
L’ascolto balneare della collezione estate 2019: Rhodotorula – Traveler’s Diar(y)rhea (Average Man Records)
Un disco del 2018 che avevo criminalmente dimenticato: Aufbruch – Blasting The Void (Mourning Light Records) [intervista]
Quando la prima impressione non è quella giusta, cioè i dischi rivalutati in meglio nel corso dei mesi:
Blut aus Nord – Hallucinogen (Debemur Morti Productions)
Vessel of Iniquity – Void of Infinite Horror (Xenoglossy Productions / Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Amici bravi e belli (ossia evitiamo i conflitti di interessi e fate sapere a questi musicisti cosa pensate di loro perché magari li ascolto solo con le orecchie dell’amore):
Crisis Benoit – Night of the Living Deathmatches (Slaughterhouse Records) [intervista]
Hörnhammer – Worms & Witchcraft (self released)
La Janara – Tenebra (Black Widow Records) [intervista]
Thecodontion – Jurassic (WOOAAARGH / Xenoglossy Productions / Glossolalia Records)
“Mi serve una pausa di riflessione” ovvero dischi che in altri momenti della mia vita avrei inzuppato di bava, ma che mi hanno lasciato un po’ tiepidino:
Darkthrone – Old Star (Peaceville Records)
Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Mgła – Age of Excuse (Northern Heritage Records)
Misþyrming – Algleymi (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Schammasch – Hearts Of No Light (Prosthetic Records)
Sinmara – Hvísl stjarnanna (Ván Records)
Finalmente qualcosa di meno peloso (altro che guilty pleasure, sta roba mi fa godere come un coniglio):
Ana Frango Elétrico – Little Electric Chicken Heart (Risco)
AyahuascA – Naad (Salty Dog Records)
Credit Electric – Credit Electric (self released)
Dolore – Fantasmi (Horror Pain Gore Death) [intervista]
Hallelujah the hills – I’m You (self released)
Submental Orchestra – Laser (self released)
William Doyle – Your Wilderness Revisited
Quattro A e un numero per smettere di ascoltare il metal e darsi alla polka:
Abbath – Outsrider (Season of Mist)
Alcest – Spiritual Instinct (Nuclear Blast)
Amon Amarth – Berserker (Metal Blade Records)
1349 – The Infernal Pathway (Season of Mist)
Una recensione per smettere di leggere di metal: “è palese come il growl sia un cantato esclusivamente maschile, in cui i tentativi del gentil sesso vengono giustificati unicamente dall’avvenenza delle varie Angela, Alyssa, Rachel o Vicky” [qui]
Le diatribe dell’anno: Batushka-del-chitarrista vs Batushka-del-cantante (is for boys),
death metal alla Fetid vs death metal alla Blood Incantation (is for men)
Artwork dell’anno: Triptachyon – David Glomba [Teitanblood – The Baneful Choir booklet]
Label che mi hanno viziato con prestazioni fenomenali per tutto l’anno: Unholy Domain Records, Amor Fati Productions, Caligari Records
Label che avrei voluto approfondire di più: Profound Lore
Artisti (e quindi album) più attesi del 2020: Bedsore, Thecodontion, Coexistence, Snorlax, Eraser, Jordablod, Necrogosto, Continuum of Xul, Doomraiser, Postvorta
Se il mondo finisse il 31 dicembre 2019, nell’aria risuonerebbe: Martin Dolman – Cold War Nostalgia (Corium Records)
Blog Thrower 
Thanks for the list, man. Love the broad exposure.
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